Personal Narrative: Feeding The Homeless

During my experience of feeding the homeless around my city, I chose to go to the first neighborhood I’ve lived in out of several. As I was taking in the nostalgic scenery, I motioned towards a man who took shelter behind a dumpster. Not wanting to startle him, I kindly greeted and offered him one of the many pb&j’s I had prepared earlier.
“I don’t want your goddamn sandwich, I’d rather eat Mcdonalds,” he said harshly, assuming I was helping him out of pity and not the kindness of my heart. This wasn’t the first time I’ve helped people who didn’t want to be helped. In fact, this hopeless mindset was influenced by the crime, poverty, and drugs within my community. For decades, generations have idealized that the only way to survive is to steal and harm those who get in your way. This was evident in the many times people have burglarized my home and threatened to take my life. Despite all this, I was always aware that this was not the way I wanted to live my life as I couldn’t even harm a fly. From the start, I, myself was an example of the hopeless mindset but these constant encounters of hurting one another and forever staying at the bottom of our society animated me to change to become a leader to change lives. My objectives started …show more content…
The random encounters I had with other kids, teens and adults that had praised my tenacity and even challenged me to difficult tasks, admired me and wanted to follow my steps to success. Although I knew following this goal as a religion would have its failures I acknowledged that it is only part of the ladder to success. Peace, love and positivity are the only way to reach souls to change lives,change generations and even reach unattainable